[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 193 (Wednesday, November 3, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7743-S7744]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4244. Mr. MENENDEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed 
to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of subtitle G of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1283. SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF THE COUP IN SUDAN ON 
                   UNITED STATES SECURITY INTERESTS.

       (a) Report.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of State and the Director of 
     National Intelligence, shall submit to the appropriate 
     committees of Congress a report on the coup in Sudan on 
     October 25, 2021.
       (2) Elements.--The report required by paragraph (1) shall 
     include the following:
       (A) An assessment of the security implications of such coup 
     for United States security interests in the Horn of Africa.
       (B) An identification of any country that supported such 
     coup.
       (3) Form.--The report required by paragraph (1) shall be 
     submitted in unclassified form but may contain a classified 
     annex.
       (b) Prohibition on Assistance.--
       (1) In general.--Amounts authorized to be appropriated by 
     this Act, or any other Act, may not be obligated or expended 
     to provide assistance to the Government of Sudan until the 
     date on which the certification described in paragraph (2) is 
     made.
       (2) Certification described.--The certification described 
     in this paragraph is a certification by the Secretary of 
     State to the appropriate committees of Congress that the 
     following criteria have been met:
       (A) The Prime Minister of Sudan, other civilian members of 
     the Sovereign Council of Sudan, members of civil society, and 
     other individuals detained in connection with the coup in 
     Sudan on October 25, 2021, have been released from detention.
       (B) Sudan has returned to constitutional rule under the 
     transitional constitution.
       (C) The state of emergency in Sudan has been lifted, 
     including the full restoration of all means of communication.
       (D) The military forces of Sudan, including the rapid 
     support forces, have been ordered to return to their 
     barracks.
       (c) Sanctions.--The President shall immediately identify 
     the leaders of the coup in Sudan on October 25, 2021, their 
     accomplices, and foreign and United States persons that the 
     President determines enabled the coup for the imposition of 
     sanctions pursuant to applicable sanctions laws.
       (d) Opposition to Support by International Financial 
     Institutions.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall use the 
     voice

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     and vote of the United States in the international financial 
     institutions (as defined in section 1701(c) of the 
     International Financial Institutions Act (22 U.S.C. 262r(c))) 
     to suspend all actions by those institutions related to loans 
     or debt relief to Sudan until the Secretary of State submits 
     the certification described in subsection (b)(2).
       (e) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence 
     of the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs, and the Permanent Select Committee on 
     Intelligence of the House of Representative.
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